benofsky

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by benofsky 13y ago
Hi, author here. I love reading academic papers and I love Math. But it's an unfortunate fact that academic papers make up the majority of the literature on ML — and that their notation, and writing style exclude a large population who
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by benofsky 13y ago
Hey, author here. > Aside from the fact the techniques he mentioned are some of the simplest in machine learning (and are hardly those that would immediately come to mind when I think "machine learning") The primary point of th
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by benofsky 13y ago
Sure, author here. The point of the graphs are as an example more than anything — in any real world solution it's not trivial to plot your documents (as representing documents with thousands of words in 1d, 2d or 3d is not trivial). Bu
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Tell HN: Hack & Tell San Francisco
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by benofsky 13y ago
Yup. We're working on making this clearer right now. "Your users" is _your_ users. You add a Javascript snippet to your app which sends us up-to-date information about your users (as they move around your app) — we record that data and allo
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by benofsky 13y ago
Eek! Fixed. Thanks for the feedback — we'll see if we can make that clearer.
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by benofsky 13y ago
Yup, my bad. Terms of use I don't think we need right now. Privacy policy is: we'll never share your data with anyone.
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by benofsky 13y ago
I'm often asked to generate CSVs of our user base for various non-technical colleagues. They might use these CSVs to do analyses in Excel or import users into a service (like Mailchimp). This is an attempt at taking me out of that process,
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Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP)(easycsv.com)
10 points by benofsky 13y ago|9 comments
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by benofsky 13y ago
Congrats guys!
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by benofsky 14y ago
I think there's a big difference between how [my generation and] I (19 y.o.) use Facebook, and how older generations do. For me, it is 80% keeping up with my current friends and 20% older friends. I think these ratios are perhaps flipped af
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by benofsky 14y ago
I like the TV analogy, it's perhaps more apt. Surely the point of any TV network is to show ads based on their viewers interests? Just FB is able to be much more targeted (at the same time they also have to compete with the huge over-supply
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by benofsky 14y ago
I don't know. Obviously this matters in determining how much FB is worth. It probably isn't much right now but, I see the potential for huge future earnings, they haven't found their adwords yet, I'm confident they will.
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by benofsky 14y ago
RE: The stock being down ~10% in after-hours. I think there's a real divide between the people who use Facebook, for whom it is (often) a serious part of their social life and, those who comment on FB in the media and invest in FB on the pu
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What Start-ups Need to Know and Do about Churn(blog.intercom.io)
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Google+'s 170m+ users and how to increase their engagement?(blog.intercom.io)
6 points by benofsky 14y ago|3 comments
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No more weekends lost to work(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by benofsky 14y ago|0 comments
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They Write the Right Stuff: How The Shuttle Group Wrote Software(fastcompany.com)
1 points by benofsky 15y ago|0 comments
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What are best practices for building something like a News Feed?(quora.com)
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by benofsky 15y ago
This is really a problem with Github's news feed, rather than the watch button. Facebook had this problem a few years ago but put a lot of work into aggregating similar stories, etc.
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Leaked Facebook Revenue Numbers, $700m profit.(businessinsider.com)
10 points by benofsky 15y ago|0 comments
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The EU economic commissioner says the euro zone has ten days to save itself(economist.com)
1 points by benofsky 15y ago|1 comments
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by benofsky 15y ago
I just did the Leaving Cert in Dublin in June and I'm currently interning at Hunch. You'll hear a lot of people going on about just how expensive New York is, but, honestly compared to Dublin, it's cheaper or the same price for pretty much
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by benofsky 15y ago
How is advertising a net-negative to society? Advertising funds many things which are too expensive to produce by themselves: newspapers, tv, movies, etc. You may not _like_ it but it makes possible many things which would otherwise be infe
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by benofsky 15y ago
Just as an example from my own experiences: I was able to predict the winner of the XFactor within 1% of the final vote, two hours prior to the final [1]. I've also written an algorithm that can with 80% accuracy detect a news story will co
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by benofsky 15y ago
Twitter's data set is incredibly valuable; Twitter won't make money from ads, they will make money from analyses of their data [1]. Developing infrastructure and software that can analyse the sheer quantity of data Twitter generates takes t
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by benofsky 15y ago
"...but youngsters with no special talent, like Ms. Cinkle..." Not so sure that's fair: I see this a lot with young 'stars' being 'talentless', in this case, being smart enough (both to use it for a good cause and to be able to use it in th
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CafePress files for $80 million IPO(marketwatch.com)
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Merlin Mann: Better(merlinmann.com)
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by benofsky 15y ago
For anyone who's interested, I've been working on a static site generator called Bolt ( http://usebolt.com/ ), which is more like a Sinatra clone which outputs static HTML (rather than being aimed at bloggers) giving you a lot of flexibilit

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